Chamber category: 46 books

At last amateur players can try original compositions to test their skills and expand their repertoire.

The musical genre of taarab is played for entertainment at weddings and other festive occasions all along the Swahili Coast in East Africa. Taarab contains all the features of a typical 'Indian Ocean' music, combining influences from Egypt, the Arabian Peninsula, India and the West with local musical...

This is an Urtext edition of the Quartet in G major for Keyboard, Flute, viola. and cello by CPE Bach. Written in the last year of CPE Bach's life this beautifully crafted work is highly imaginative and mature in the classical style. The transverse flute plays a prominent role, especially interesting...

The original intention was that this book should be entirely biographical. If it be true, however, that out main interest is (or ought to be) in what a composer did rather than in what he was, the truth applies especially to Beethoven, and above all at the present time. The scheme of the book has...

this is the 4th volume in a series of original woodwind music. This has one trio. 2 duets, 8 quartets, and one quintet. Most are by the composer (author) but one is an arrangement of a traditional spiritual, one is an arrangement of Bach BMV 900, and one two are arrangements of a Chopin waltz. Single...

This book tells the story of how a regional Chinese theatrical form, Shanghai Yue Opera, evolved from the all-male ’beggar’s song’ of the early twentieth century to become the largest all-female opera form in the nation, only to face increasing pressure to survive under Chinese political and...

Partez à la découverte de la musique de chambre avec ce Grand Article Universalis ! Au sens moderne, «musique de chambre» est une expression générique s'appliquant à des compositions pour un petit nombre d'instruments solistes. Jusqu'à la fin du xvii e siècle, avant l'apparition...

An in-depth study of the Bulgarian harmonic system is long overdue. More than two decades since the Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares choir was awarded a Grammy (1990), there is no scholarly study of the captivating sounds of Bulgarian vertical sonorities. Kalin Kirilov traces the gradual formation of...

P’ansori is the quintessential traditional Korean musical drama, in which epic tales are sung and narrated by a solo singer accompanied by a drummer. Drawing on her extensive research in Korea and its diasporas, Haekyung Um describes and analyses the creative processes of p’ansori, weaving into...

Since the early 1990s, Okinawan music has experienced an extraordinary boom in popularity throughout Japan. Musicians from this island prefecture in the very south of Japan have found success as performers and recording artists, and have been featured in a number of hit films and television dramas....

Japanese folk performing arts incorporate a body of entertainments that range from the ritual to the secular. They may be the ritual dances at Shinto shrines performed to summon and entertain deities; group dances to drive away disease-bearing spirits; or theatrical mime to portray the tenets of Buddhist...

The musical tradition of Ma'luf is believed to have come to North Africa with Muslim and Jewish refugees escaping the Christian reconquista of Spain between the tenth and seventeenth centuries. Although this Arab Andalusian music tradition has been studied in other parts of the region, until now,...

Nella recensione alla II ed. di questa biografia, Eric Sams aveva scritto: “Considero il libro di Frank Walker su Wolf la migliore biografia musicale mai scritta. Il testo completo è ora disponibile per la prima volta. L’autore aveva omesso diversi passaggi dalla prima edizione ‘per rispetto...

Si la créativité n’est pas (qu’une) technique, mais plutôt un rapport au monde, une forme d’être, que peuvent nous apprendre sur ce sujet de grands créateurs comme Jean-Sébastien Bach, compositeur prolifique – plus d’un millier d’œu vres répertoriées – dont la musique fait vibrer...